Journal Junction for March 12

Editor’s note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as “Letters to the Editor,”?which is a separate forum. The Journal’s classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.

From Shepherdstown:

Mr. W.Va. Attorney General states how high-tech his office is compared to McGraw’s office. Mr. Attorney General, tear down these illegal phone call companies. What happened to the no-call list? Another Big Brother hoax? Come on, fine them heavily and put them out of business. I’m now getting, no exaggeration, at least five calls per day. We voted you in, we can vote you out.

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From Kearneysville:

When did people become so lazy that they can’t take a shopping cart back? I had one left beside my truck this afternoon and I had to take it back because I didn’t want someone to think I left it. Fair warning, if I see you leave one, you may have to wait a minute until I correct your laziness.

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From Bunker Hill:

Strange things happening lately. I have no consolation remembering my book on the Bermuda Triangle.

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From Shepherdstown:

Well, the chickens have come home to roost in our foreign policy in this country, which is lacking for the last five years. It’s been run by a bunch of amateurs, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and President Obama. Now we are going to have pay because of his stance of weakness throughout the world….

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From Martinsburg:

Yes, the King Street/Raleigh intersection does need to be repaired. It is part of U.S. 11 and needs to be done by the West Virginia State DOT. Write your legislator to get them to move more quickly.

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From Martinsburg:

I’m a 12-year Desert Storm veteran, just graduated out of the coach program and have gotten an apartment. I don’t have any furniture. Would anyone be kind enough to donate? Call me at 304-596-1026.

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From Gerrardstown:

Berkeley County should have Internet access choices and not be forced, for the most part, to one provider. The county is growing, and a good part of that growth is workers that can work and live here if they had economical Internet access. The county is missing the boat by not doing more with this than they do now, which is nothing. Jobs and the related income from them would help the local economy in numerous ways.

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From Bunker Hill:

Why wasn’t anything put into the newspaper about Regional Math Field Day and the winners that move on to compete in state Math Field Day?

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From Charles Town:

Didn’t the Martinsburg caller who constantly bashes President Obama promise to move to Canada if Obama got reelected? And isn’t Canada home to socialized medicine? Seems to me that this caller is a bit confused.

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From Inwood:

It’s pretty sad that I work a full-time job and make more than minimum wage, yet barely get by. I don’t have luxuries other than a vehicle to get me to work. Now the water company is raising the rates, so it looks like I will have to go without another luxury … water.

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From Martinsburg:

I don’t know how anyone could have hurt Martha Tyler! She was a great lady who would have given the shirt off her back to anyone in need. I hope they find the coward or cowards that killed her! Shame on you!

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From Inwood:

Grades are up in California and other areas where kids go all year; the kids don’t have a huge hunk of time to forget everything and don’t need a huge hunk of time to refresh at the beginning of the year. They go three weeks, get a week off and so on. Why does this intimidate people so much? Quit playing the “schools aren’t your babysitter” and “parent your children” card and get progressive. It’s about the kids’ well-being!

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From Berkeley County:

Some of us thought we had elected a council that respected property rights and which valued natural resources such as water. Berkeley County is a rural county. Let’s keep it that way. No more boxes on dirt. No more sewer pipes. Loundon County said no; so can Berkeley.

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From Inwood:

I just saw on television where a CIA agent was found guilty of having an affair with another woman, telling his wife he was on an undercover assignment, which gives new meaning to “Under Cover.”

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From Martinsburg:

Our country’s first form of government was the “Articles of Confederation,” which provided for very strong “state’s rights.” It proved to be a disaster, both for the states and the country. So-called (self-styled) “Patriots” go on and on about Obama’s “war on coal,” but remain strangely silent about Big Coal’s poisoning of our state’s water.